On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:36:18 -0600, Mike Avery
> spewed forth :

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>I didn't get huffy. I still haven't gotten huffy. Despite your
>condescending BS attitude.

Who's condescending? You slammed grinders as a whole, I defended the
one I've been using for years. 'Nuff said.

>
>No, I didn't get tired of the work. I got tired of the inferior results
>that were only salvagable by adding things to bread I'd rather not add
>to bread.

Sounds like a problem I've never had when baking with my own
homeground flour. A bit of food for the yeast, a bit of salt to keep
the beasties from overrunning the kitchen...

>
>And my comments were made so the OP would realize that grinding your own
>wheat adds another layer of complexity to the bread making process, and
>that the outcomes are not as wonderful as people who sell mills would
>like you to believe.

We're not all out for the perfect loaf, or consistent production for
the masses. I cook what I eat, I eat what I cook. Occasionally I
have a spectacular failure, but only occasionally. The last horrible
batch of bread I pulled from the oven was still edible as croutons, so
it wasn't a complete failure. The cake may fall, but we still eat it.
I draw the line at overcooked rice or broccoli...

I'm sorry that your experience with DIY flour has left you with a bad
taste in your mouth. Reporting your results and slamming home milling
as a whole isn't called for, IMO.

>
>My experience was, inconsistent results, lower quality results over
>all. I don't recommend it if your goal is better bread.

While it *has* been a decade, I recall my store-bought flour-based
bread to be lacking in both flavor and character and requiring all
sorts of "additives and adjuncts" to make it worth eating. Bread I
make with home-ground flour is, IMO, far superior to what I used to
turn out with store-bought flour and is light years better than
store-bought bread of any stripe.

>
>If your goal is mystical re-connection to the earth

Nope, I'd make tampon tea if I felt mystical. Fortunately that hasn't
yet happened and damned well better not until I'm well past The
Change, at which point it'll be impossible for me to make tampon tea
and therefore pointless to get mystical.

, a quest for better
>nutrition,

That, and better bread.

> religous reawakening

No thanks, I shucked that off when I moved out of my parents' house

Its also cheaper to grind your own in most instances. I buy Montana
hard white through the local food coop. A 50# bag costs me about $18,
delivered to my door and usually carried into the house by a nice
college boy who is working to maintain his or his girlfriend's share
in the coop. The same quantity of flour purchased at the market would
run me upwards of $100 these days, and I wouldn't like the results.
The grinder paid for itself sometime during its third year of use.

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